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OceanGate Inc. is an American privately owned company based in Everett, Washington, that provided crewed submersibles for tourism, industry, research, and exploration. The company was founded in 2009 by Stockton Rush and Guillermo Söhnlein. The company acquired a submersible vessel, Antipodes, and later built two of its own: Cyclops 1 and Titan.
Richard Stockton Rush III (March 31, 1962 – June 18, 2023) was an American businessman who was the co-founder and chief executive officer of OceanGate, a deep-sea exploration company. After graduation from Princeton University, Rush worked for McDonnell Douglas as a flight test engineer on their F-15 program.
In 1998, Söhnlein co-founded Milo, a speech recognition technology company that was acquired by Voxeo [3] in 2001.. After relocating to the Northern Virginia region outside Washington, D.C., he worked with a number of technology startup ventures, [4] [5] [6] and advised several technology-related investment groups, incubators, and economic development agencies, [7] [8] and gave frequent talks ...
The surviving co-founder of the company that owned the doomed Titan submersible is testifying Monday as a US Coast Guard panel continues to investigate what led to the implosion that killed five ...
Earlier in the hearing, OceanGate co-founder Guillermo Söhnlein, who left the company a decade before the Titan disaster but continued to champion Rush’s efforts, said a cause for the implosion ...
The co-founder and former CEO of OceanGate said the company originally never planned to build its own submersibles while testifying during a hearing on the deadly implosion of its Titan sub.
Söhnlein co-founded OceanGate in 2009 together with Rush. He testified the goal of the company he co-founded with Rush was to make the deep ocean accessible to humanity.
OceanGate co-founder Stockton Rush was among the five people who died when the submersible imploded in June 2023. The Coast Guard opened a public hearing earlier this month that is part of a high level investigation into the cause of the implosion. Some of the testimony has focused on the troubled nature of the company.